NZ North Island 2017

NZ North Island 2017

Bylivetheflow Reading Time: 13 minutes

THE NORTH ISLAND  In autumn 2017, Jenni and I decided to go for a one-off, major retirement holiday adventure. Something that we would be very unlikely to repeat. It was this holiday that started Livetheflow so that we could share our journey with family and friends.  In the first of these two posts, we have reproduced the text…

Scandi24

Scandi24

Bylivetheflow Reading Time: 30 minutes

AN O.A.P. ADVENTURE as written at the time, September 2024. It was a fantastic three weeks, hugely worth having a go. 1. ALL SET TO GO I am hoping to record a potentially crazy adventure we are about to start at the end of this week: Scandi24. It all depends on my failing memory of…

The Severn – A River Muse

The Severn – A River Muse

Bylivetheflow Reading Time: 5 minutes

I wrote these word several decades ago to explore the parallels between our personal life journey and that of the River Severn THE JOURNEY On Plynlimon’s sun-soaked summer heights​Seeping from marsh and peat, vulnerable,​A humble birth exposed to heather and to sky. Nothing of the passion and pain of human dawn,​No hint of the barren blasted…